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New York. 18th December 2018 – An all-star team of academic blockchain scholars across North America and Europe is pleased to announce the formation of a multi-national research organization, Insolar Research, which is poised to bridge the gap between science and real-world enterprise adoption.
Insolar Research and a 10 leading academic blockchain scholars from institutions including York University, ETH Zurich, and Princeton University. It is currently an ambitious slate of research and proof-of-concept pilot projects that span multiple research areas, industries, and partner collaborations.
Among its ranks is Prof. Henry Kim, co-director of York University's blockchain lab in Toronto and one of the leading academic scholars in North America, and Prof. Alexandru Butean, Senior Lecturer Professor in Computer Science and architect of the Blockchain Society in Estonia . Eight other scholars round out the team's growing membership, each contributing to the mix of blockchain expertise with other industrial research specializations, such as cryptography, security, IoT, and AI / ML.
In keeping with Insolar's open source values, Insolar Research will publish and share its findings with the world.
"Insolar Research is a vital component of the Insular ecosystem," says the company's CEO Andrey Zhulin, "It brings thought leadership and academic rigor to our technology platform and advances the frontiers of knowledge for the greater community boats. "
Projects which Insulate Research is currently conducting includes:
- Investigating how a modern society would be if blockchain technology applied at all levels. This project closely follows EU directives for 2020 and creates the architecture, requirements, and tools needed for public institutions and enterprises to integrate their services to achieve fairness in an unfair world.
- Businesses remain hesitant in their adoption of blockchain technology. SimuChain simulates how blockchain technology can impact the business processes of an enterprise organization, decreasing uncertainty and demonstrating tangible benefits.
- Making the case for how blockchain technology can improve supply chain provenance and food safety. This project leverages smart contracts to execute provenance tracing.
- A two million euro project that will create the factory of the future by using IoT products and services to optimize the interplay between humans, computers, and their environment. This project is funded by the Romanian government.
- Proposing a blockchain-enabled electricity microgrid that incentives the use of local, renewable energy sources to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.
- Investigating how blockchain technology impacts the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN / CEFACT) and how the organization can provide standardized technical specifications for the provenance and authenticity of goods.
- Examining how adopting blockchain technology can increase the global competitiveness of food manufacturers and exporters in Canada, especially in Ontario.
- Investigating how tightly coupled blockchains for different enterprise operations (e.g., Financing and Operations) can increase productivity, improve resource allocation, and minimize risks and costs of information asymmetry in business transactions.
